Sr Consultant, Product Safety & Compliance

Sr Compliance Consultant, Compliance (Product Restrictions)

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. To match the signature style and passion of Target's distinctive retail brand, Target Legal Affairs is a dynamic and deeply knowledgeable team of experts. Whether specializing in law, government affairs, employee relations, risk, compliance, ethics, security or food safety, we use our expertise and influence to advocate for Target, support Target's business and mitigate risk for the company. We work with both internal and external entities on key issues that affect Target's ability to productively, ethically and securely conduct business. Through our understanding of Target's business models and operations, we help facilitate Target's growth, and provide guidance that leaders rely on to make appropriate, well-informed decisions. Simultaneously, we help protect the business by applying our comprehensive understanding of risk and the law on issues that impact our brand, guests, team members, stores, distribution centers and corporate locations.

Here, you'll enjoy working autonomously with a healthy work-life balance. Your passion for learning the business, collaborating with others and building relationships with senior leaders and key business partners that you support will be essential to tackling the ever-changing legal and risk-based challenges we face in a dynamic and fast-paced retail environment. A role in Corporate Compliance and Ethics means providing support and managing key compliance areas for Target including stores, distribution centers and at headquarters.

As a Senior Compliance Consultant, you will:

• Maintain an understanding of regulatory risks and develop and maintain appropriate policies.
• Conduct risk assessments of existing and new business processes and work to address any areas of opportunity with our business partners.
• Consult on new business and technology initiatives to ensure compliance requirements are accounted for through ideation, design and execution.
• Develop training and communication plans to socialize compliance requirements with cross-functional teams and vendors; ensure requirements are documented and resources are available to support the awareness of, and adherence to compliance guidance.
• Coordinate process & system development and improvements to ensure timely, efficient, compliant and repeatable controls for in-store and digital sales.
• Identify relevant metrics and control monitors to support decision-making, influence process change, and track program activities.
• Lead aspects of regulatory change management for new Product Restriction Laws and Regulations and proactively lead other relevant compliance initiatives in response to emerging compliance or industry trends.
• Develop and maintain effective relationships with cross-functional partners including, but not limited to: Merchandising, Technology Product Management, Law Department, and Compliance Legal & Risk Services.
• Contribute to and maintain a positive team culture by demonstrating behaviors consistent with Target's values of Inclusivity, Connection and Drive.

Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

About You:

• Bachelor's degree in Business or other relevant field of study and/or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 3+ years of directly related work experience in compliance, operations or regulatory change management.
• Demonstrated ability to develop program documentation, conduct gap analysis against requirements, develop and conduct training and awareness, identify controls and gaps, identify risk, process map, and establish monitoring and reporting.
• Leads projects or work streams within projects. Can plan, execute, monitor and report progress.
• Document process maps, develop improvement plans, and identify key controls.
• Identification of risk, assess data to understand underlying root causes, identify improvement opportunities and measurement of effectiveness.
• Ability to translate regulations and guidance into actionable plans, and applying discretion while working with confidential information.
• Ability to work with peers in business areas to design and implement controls. Ability to ensure appropriate monitors are in place. Designs controls with business, performance and compliance in mind.
• Facilitate meetings and build agendas. Collaborate on issues and solutions with partners. Manage conflict with peers and partners. Internal and external stakeholders.
• Identifies process improvements and automation. Strives for continuous improvement of their process. Automation tech understanding. Implements automation.
• Collect and analyze data. Use data to identify trends and root cause issues. Develops dashboards and reporting on compliance programs.
• Implements changes and understands stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional (CCEP)
• Master's, JD or other advanced degree in a related field
• Experience working in a matrixed environment within the retail industry
• Previous experience developing and overseeing sustainable compliance programs

• This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target's needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member's core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually, depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.

  In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.